Theres a whole band of them Trev ... that be more than one son.
Me old mate ... the late great John "Sango" Sangster flew with them from time to time.
Smoking reefers in the twat lounge.

Many years ago John came around to our place for a sunday BBQ, polished of enough vodka to kill a Russian army and went nigh-night on the sofa.
On monday morning we let him sleep and headed of to work. I returned home at lunchtime for a couple of hot ones (as you did) and found our Sango encamped under a large tree in the back yard, sitting peacefully on the outdoor furniture, composing music, a growing pile of wine bottles beside him. "Oh there you are lad" he said on my return, "by the way, I've found your stash, Brewongil" he added, indicating the lovingly syphoned empties strewn on the lawn. John ended up staying for three days, coincidentally precisely the same amount of time it took to empty the wine cellar. He was a fabulous talented eccentric delight. Vale Sango.

Back to the ducks then.

The moving finger writes and having writ moves on ... now all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel even half a line ... nor all thy tears wash out a single word of it.

Ducks eat cockroaches without the fatality of digesting cane toads, yes the Duck were here, grammatically appalling but correct as I assume in this case it's a collective noun.
I don't know about singularities applying to Wombles either. Quote; " the Wombles of Wimbleton are we!"

Our wildlife is evolving.
Blue tongue lizards in some parts of the country have greater natural resistance to cane toad toxin due to eating Mother of Millions, which has a similar toxin.
Red-bellied black snakes have evolved smaller skulls in places where there are cane toads.
Magpies can flip them over and eat everything except the poison glands and the liver. I've seen a mum teaching the fledgelings.
Native frogs are still in big trouble.

Our wildlife is evolving.
Blue tongue lizards in some parts of the country have greater natural resistance to cane toad toxin due to eating Mother of Millions, which has a similar toxin.
Red-bellied black snakes have evolved smaller skulls in places where there are cane toads.
Magpies can flip them over and eat everything except the poison glands and the liver. I've seen a mum teaching the fledgelings.
Native frogs are still in big trouble.

I knew about the magpies.
BTW. We're inundated with cane toads around here.
AND we have a vigorous population of mature green frogs.

Well you made me check that last one..and it looks like the science has changed on that front.

Turns out that Green Tree Frog tadpoles greatly reduce the effectiveness of toadpole development, i.e. they outcompete them.
Also, because the toads are toxic to a lot of things that eat frogs (i.e. toads are basically boobytrapped frogs...had to get the word booby in there somehow), some frog numbers are actually increasing

And the toads have certainly come back in the last couple of wetter summers.

alakaboo wrote:Well you made me check that last one..and it looks like the science has changed on that front.

Turns out that Green Tree Frog tadpoles greatly reduce the effectiveness of toadpole development, i.e. they outcompete them.
Also, because the toads are toxic to a lot of things that eat frogs (i.e. toads are basically boobytrapped frogs...had to get the word booby in there somehow), some frog numbers are actually increasing

And the toads have certainly come back in the last couple of wetter summers.

This is all good reason to bomb the fkkukk out of qld. Nothing left alive. Sure, we might lose millions of Australians, but the country would be improved beyond a doubt.

we are the angry mob
We read the papers everyday
We like who we like, we hate who we hate
But we're also easily swayed